There's a story going around the rightosphere today that a Senate bill, S.679, creates serious consitution problems with its treatment of appointments. It doesn't. I have a detailed analysis of why here.

Thanks, Irene, I will.Are you sure it isn't from the long haired cat in your pic?That's not my cat.It isn't my dog, either, I've just had her since December because my step-mother has enjoyed such ill health, my dad's too tired to look after the dog.

I realized after they'd died that my two Balinese cats had given me chronic indigestion for 10 years. We have 4 cats at my office that don't, but I don't want to risk bringing one home, and now the dog would chase it all day.

Lem, they aren't speeding it up, they're dragging it out. It was obvious that the Ninth Circuit wasn't going to vacate the injunction; it is obvious that the Supreme Court isn't going to vacate it. If they really want to speed things up (I pointed out at the time), they should take the injunction on the chin and litigate the merits of the suit. Arizona is posturing and dragging it out, presumably for political gain.

We've taken to taking in "rescue-pets" into our home. Last November, we lucked into the rare experience of rescuing a dog of a very rare breed which, had we bought him from a breeder as the original owner did, would have been quite expensive. Double-luck that he was still just a puppy.

Today, he's more than just pretty much a happy-go-lucky dude, despite the fact that we need to improve on our dog-grooming skills (and commitment to doing that sort of thing, every single day of our lives, not something in which we previously had any interest at all, and--truth be told--still don't, inherently, but we're working on it).

Our rescues have not been by breed; that is, we don't search for certain ones and we don't belong to specific groups. Please believe me when I say I don't have a problem with all of that or those: I don't; we don't. I write this comment only in the interest of clarity, with regard to our own thing.

Well, unless the Simon-pretender is also posting on Twitter as Simon and also as Simon on Facebook, all linking back to Simon on his own, longstanding group blog. In that case, skepticism might not be so much in order. A simple Googling to confirm whiffs of institutional knowledge and memory might be more efficient, if not effective.

We saw Thor in 3D on Saturday (it was my first 3D movie). I enjoyed the movie but found the 3D distracting; I'd probably have been happier seeing it in 2D.

We liked the movie, but I had some quibbles with liberties they took with Norse mythology, such as having Odin lose his eye fighting frost giants and Sif the golden-haired being a brunette! (I read the Wikipedia page about how the latter happened in the comic books, but still...)

Thor in 2D will be good. The 3D makes my eyes tired, and the goggles cram my glasses into my head.

I had some quibbles with liberties they took with Norse mythology

Ha. We took the cheap route and watched the SciFi version on the tele. It was so horrible that we had to MST3K it (ie. snarky comments during this train wreck of a movie) which is always fun in its own way.

Movie that I'd like to see: My Three Widows, a comedy in which the ghost of Osama Bin Laden haunts his Abbottabad compound along with his three widows, who remain there along with his grouchy sidekick, Uncle Zawahiri. You know how the Chinese ideogram for trouble is "two women under one roof"? Well, try it with three, as polygamist hijinks ensue. Sort of a cross between The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Big Love and My Three Sons.